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Democratic american election. let that sink in for a second, guys, gals. tell me where theres intent there to subvert american democracy. well, we know how this story is going to end. everybody is going to walk. the bad guys always get away from the trump administration, and they will here as well, and its just unfortunately the whole american belief that no man is above the law, that doesnt apply to donald trump. we dont know why. it just doesnt. again, this story in and of itself, mika -- >> y...

Question. and what i heard is the department of justice is not moving with any lack raw tea to make a move on the referral. keep in mind, the january 6th committee is way ahead of the department of justice in terms of putting together the pieces that link various folks on the ground who are attacking the capitol and the side effort of trump and his allies to create what -- what at least ali alexander called maximum pressure outside the pressure, outside the congress on january 6th when republica...

Said hes committed multiple crimes. its just not going to happen. in this case, mika, its just not going to happen either and thats a very long prelude to say this, even if no charges are ever brought, even if theres no disciplinary actions ever taken in this case, this woodward story and costa story, these texts, these exchanges serve as the most damning indictment against the trump white house that we have seen so far, and mark meadows makes it very clear that he is going to use the shield of ...

Will continue to fight back in the text to ginni thomas, and if you took the name off the text, and it was not ginni thomas, as you say, a respected person, and theres wild videos off of youtube pushing the conspiracy theories, and this is in context with donald trump going out on that morning saying we will take this to the supreme court. no evidence clarence thomas was involved, but the supreme court is in the mix on this. >> these texts from ginni thomas are completely unhinged. the thing tha...

Mentioned. nbc news now confirmed the committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol obtained text messages that show conservative activist, ginni thomas, who is the wife of the supreme court justice clarence thomas, pressing the then trump chief of staff, mark meadows, to overturn the elections, and the copies first obtained by the washington post, and bob woodward and bob costa got those, and nbc news has not independently viewed the text. and joining us now, eugene robinson and...

Nbc news confirmed the committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capital, the wife repeatedly pressing mark meadows to fight to overturn the election. copies of 29 text messages were obtained by "the washington post." nbc news has not reviewed those texts. the first message was a link to a radio that claimed trump had marked ballots to catch fraud. in the message she said, i hope this is true. never heard anything like this before or a hint of it. possible, she asked.

This effort to the work of jesus christ and to call it the work of good versus evil, and to show it will stop at nothing. these texts come after the window of the election and the fever intensified of the left wing as staffers left and trump was left there with his loyalist, including rudy giuliani, and sidney powell that came in and out of favor and mark meadows was there throughout and they stopped at nothing with efforts to try and every turn the election. and ginni thomas admitted she was at...

Ginni thomas -- i read profiles of ginni thomas for years, and she was firmly inskaupbsed in the republican party. she was the establishments establishment. she looked down on us because we didnt march in lockstep behind newt gingrich and dick army, and she was tow the line and follow the leaders, solute. matt schlapp, the first time i met him, he was in the bush white house, and he was as republican as it got. i just look at these texts, and this is not just an indictment on ginni thomas being ...

Texts, is completely off the rails. we have justice thomas, who was the lone dissenter in the decision that the committee could, in fact, get these materials turned over from the national archives. how do we deal with that nexus? how do we deal with the questions that this raises about a sitting supreme court justice? >> well, i will focus on one thing, which is chief justice roberts. a man of great integrity, and a person that cares very much about the integrity of the court especially at a tim...

That way -- >> to vote not to release this information. >> yeah, and why would he not abstain? >> the law on that is just so stunning. i mean, every single lawyer, every single constitutional scholar and every person that studied the issue of executive privilege said resoundingly that there would be no way not to turn over these records, there would be no legal basis not to provide them so how horrible does this look now for chief justice roberts. he, who wants this court to be above reproach, n...